Talia Borofsky '18

I’m about to start the 5th year of my PhD at Stanford University, where I’m advised by Marcus Feldman in the Biology Department. I’ve been applying the math I learned at Swarthmore to study feedbacks between ecological and evolutionary dynamics in predator-prey models where the predators learn socially. The idea is to understand if social learning can cause predators to have diet preferences (even if all the prey types available to them are equally good), and if so, how do those diet preferences affect the population dynamics of prey?